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Re: SMuFL
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Janek Warchoł |
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Re: SMuFL |
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Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:03:21 +0200 |
Hi,
a short comment:
2013/8/11 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> I think "so poorly documented that in practice almost no one can
>>> understand how it works" still can't qualify as "in effect
>>> proprietary".
>>
>> It is not *that* badly documented. However, the number of people who
>> understand Metafont are rather small today.
>
> git shortlog -sn mf/
> 459 Han-Wen Nienhuys
> 160 Jan Nieuwenhuizen
> 104 Werner Lemberg
> 20 Jürgen Reuter
> 16 Carl D. Sorensen
> 15 Janek Warchoł
> 11 Mats Bengtsson
> 7 Bertrand Bordage
> 7 Maximilian Albert
> 4 David Kastrup
> 4 Graham Percival
> 4 John Mandereau
> 4 Phil Holmes
> 4 Tom Cato Amundsen
> 3 Erlend Aasland
> 3 Marc Hohl
> 3 Patrick McCarty
> 3 Reinhold Kainhofer
> 3 Rune Zedeler
> 2 Aleksandr Andreev
> 2 Neil Puttock
> 1 Benkő Pál
> 1 Carsten Steger
> 1 Glen Prideaux
> 1 Julien Rioux
> 1 Mark Polesky
> 1 Michael Welsh Duggan
> 1 Nicolas Sceaux
>
> Some of those will have worked on the build system rather than the fonts
> themselves, but I doubt that all of those working on the fonts had
> previous exposure to Metafont/Metapost.
All my commits concerned Metafont, but i would never say that i
*understand* Metafont. I was just juggling with some numbers, trying
like monkey until it worked.
And as i'm pretty high on the list, this really means that few people
understand Metafont.
Janek
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